Sad, sad day .....

Well it's official!!  We have taken down Max's crib.  This is the first time in 7 years that we haven't had a crib up in our house.  We put up Emmett & Max's bunk bed last saturday.  The kids absolutely LOVE them.  They belonged to Chad and Bryan when they were little.  A little red paint and they are like new!!  Max slept in his bottom bunk from the first night.  He had been running a fever so he usually found his way down to mommy and daddy's bed sometime during the night.  But by about night 4 or 5 he was staying up in his bed the entire night!! 

We kept the crib up for a week just in case Max was having a hard time transitioning.  (i think mommy and daddy were the ones having a hard time with the transition ;).  But he did just fine and never wanted back in his crib.  So yesterday...IT CAME DOWN...(*tear*)

Here it is completely assembled.

And here it is without the bedding, looking very empty.  Kinda like the way I was feeling on the inside.

Here is my baby...I mean BIG boy "helping" take it down.  Notice the tools.  It's a wonder that Chad even needed to go to the garage to get his !!

And I was doing Ok until Molly turned on the baby aquarium, which sounds like this!

I did tear up a little bit, followed my lots of hugs from Molly.  This is a sound that will always remind me of a newborn baby.  I would go into Emmett's room before he was born and turn this aquarium on and dream of bringing home my little baby.  And I would do the same when anticipating the arrivial of my other two children!  And it has been on this crib for the whole 7 years.  This is a very familiar sound that I will always associate with  the crib and the babies in it!




And this is what a room looks like with NO crib...

...and lots of kids running around!

It's kinda nice to have the extra space in the kids bedroom, but I still can't believe that I have THREE kids.  None of which are "babies".  I mean, Max is still in diapers, still takes a pacifier and we still rock him to sleep.  But he is over two and I have no idea where the time went. 

Only time will tell if that crib will make it out of the attic.  But for now, we are a cribless home!  I am going to try my best to take advantage of ALL the fun things I can do with my BIG kids without a baby slowing us down a little!  (You know...like starting a Blog!)  I love my three kids and I am definately enjoying the journey!!